Michael Barkham

Michael Barkham is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychological Services Research at the University of Sheffield.

Previously he was Professor of Clinical & Counselling Psychology and Director of the Psychological Therapies Research Centre at the University of Leeds. He was a member of the team that carried out the Sheffield Psychotherapy Projects and also of the group that developed the CORE measures and system and is committed to supporting the development of practice-based evidence as a complement to trials methodology.

He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Joint Editor of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, and co-editor of Developing and delivering practice-based evidence: A guide for the psychological therapies (2010, Wiley).

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Alison Brettle

Alison is Book Reviews Editor for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of Salford and a health information specialist with expertise in systematic review methodology, literature searching and evidence based practice.

She has carried out two systematic reviews in counselling for BACP – on older people and on primary care.

She teaches evidence based practice and information literacy and has published widely in a number of areas. She is Associate Editor for the journal of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, has co-authored a book entitled "Finding the Evidence for Practice: a workbook for health professionals" and is currently co-editing a book which explores the changing roles of library and health information professionals – a topic which mirrors that of her PhD thesis.

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Sarah Browne

Sarah Browne is Head of Journals at BACP and Editor of Therapy Today.

Her background is in journalism and editing. She has two children and lives in the Midlands.

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Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde and a Chartered Counselling Psychologist.

Mick is author of Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Facts are Friendly (Sage, 2008), and has been closely involved in research on counselling in schools in the UK.

Mick is author, co-author and co-editor of numerous texts on person-centred, existential and pluralistic approaches to therapy, including Existential Therapies (Sage, 2003) and Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2005, with Dave Mearns). Mick lives in Glasgow with his partner and four children.

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Robert Elliott

Robert Elliott is Professor of Counselling, at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1978.

He taught at the University of Toledo 1978-2006, where he was Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for the Study of Experiential Psychotherapy; he has also held visiting faculty positions as Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), York University (Canada), University of Sheffield (UK), and La Trobe University (Australia). He served as President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2000-2001) and as co-editor of the journal Psychotherapy Research (1994-1998).

He is the author of four books, including Facilitating emotional change (1993, with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice), Research methods for clinical psychology (2nd ed., 2003, with Chris Barker & Nancy Pistrang), and Learning process-experiential psychotherapy (2004, with Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg); as well as more than 90 journal articles or book chapters. He is a Fellow in the Divisions of Psychotherapy and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is the 2008 recipient of the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

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Nick Midgley

Nick Midgley is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Programme Director of the MSc in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice at the Anna Freud Centre/University College London. His work has focused primarily on trying to help bridge the gap between research and clinical practice, especially in relation to work with children and young people.

He has worked for several years as a child therapist in both the NHS and in the voluntary sector, and has published widely on topics related to child therapy, case study research and qualitative methods. Currently Nick is working on a large-scale RCT investigating the treatment of adolescent depression (the IMPACT Study), and he is Principal Investigator on one component of IMPACT, which is exploring the experience of depression and treatment for young people and their families.

Nick is the co-editor of Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Directions, Emerging Findings (Routledge, 2009) and of the forthcoming book, Minding the Child: Mentalization-based interventions with children, young people and families (Routledge, 2012), and is on the editorial board of a number of journals including the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Nick was trained psychodynamically and through his work at the Anna Freud Centre has been very involved with the development of mentalization-based treatments for young people. He is also the Chair of the Research Committee of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists. Nick was awarded the Early Career Award by the British Psychoanalytic Council in 2010 for his ‘outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis’.

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Nicky Paris

Nicky Paris is in the final year of her MA in Counselling Studies at the University of Manchester and is currently working on her MA research.

During her training, she has worked on placement as a counsellor in the voluntary sector, a university counselling service, an occupational health service and in primary care. She has considerable editorial experience gained in the book publishing industry where she worked for many years editing and commissioning non-fiction books. A move to medical educational publishing allowed her to pursue her interest in online publishing by developing digital resources for medical students and doctors.

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Andrew Reeves

Andrew Reeves is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist with previous experience of working in secondary care psychiatric services as a therapist and Registered Social Worker. He now works at the University of Liverpool.

As a researcher Andrew’s interest lies in counselling and psychotherapy interventions with people who are suicidal. His doctoral thesis was entitled, "Assessing suicide risk in counselling: training counsellors to integrate suicide risk assessment into the therapeutic discourse."

He has published several articles and co-authored the BACP Information Sheets, "Working with Suicidal Clients" and "Considerations for Working with People Who Self-Harm". He is co-editor (with Professor Windy Dryden) of Key Issues for Counselling in Action: Second Edition (Sage, 2008) and is single author of Counselling Suicidal Clients (Sage, 2010).

He has been Editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research since January 2008.

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Ladislav Timulak

Ladislav Timulak, PhD is Course Director of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ladislav (or short Laco; read Latso) is involved in the training of counselling psychologists and in the past trained person-centred therapists as well. He has written four books, a number of peer reviewed papers and various chapters in both his native language, Slovak and in English.

His most recent books include Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Sage, 2008) and forthcoming Developing Your Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills and Practice (Sage, 2010). He maintains a part-time private practice.

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